Homework 3

Yingchen Zhao(Amy)
I think it is difficult to define the relationship between Amir and Hassan. From one hand, I think they are like master and servant. The different social status between them decieded that they can never be equal. In Hassan’s mind, he is the servant in Amir’s family and he is a Hazara. It seems that Hassan put himself in a very low status and always called Amir or even Aseff “agha”. And to Amir, Hassan is the person who could bear his tricks and also the one who shouldn’t obtain the love from Baba. I think Amir did’t really regard Hassan as a real friend.
However, they live together and also play with eachother just like good friends. They have the very tree for them to climbing. They once took turns wearing the hat which is Hassan’s birthday preasent and shot each other to dead with snow. They have a lot of wonderful time with each other just like friends.
So I think to a certain extent, they are friends. But the huge gap which made of the difference between their social status decieded that they cannot be real friends in their inner heart.